Cluros Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Hi Forum Members! I was hunting along Spring Creek in Alden, New York with my wife last week when I found this fossil. Any help identifying it would be greatly appreciated. I am perplexed as to what it might be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarleysGh0st Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Hmmmm. Is that really one specimen? Looks like it might be three brachiopods piled up, overlapping each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Honestly I do not know. I see what Marley's Ghost is saying. It does look like the first "lobe" on the right has some kind of striations on it, that I do not see on the rest of it. It might be one or two other things on top of a third item. Strange - Sorry I can't be of more assistance. Hope we find out what it is. Thanks for posting this mystery, Andy. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerryK Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Some of us local collectors call your specimen a "squish out." Mud fills the body chamber of a gastropod and is later flattened by the compaction of the sediments. The gastropod has been referred to as Loxonema but I think it's now called Paleozygopleura. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mzkleen Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Looks like your wife has a good eye for fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cluros Posted August 11, 2012 Author Share Posted August 11, 2012 Thanks for all of your insight everyone. I wasn't sure if I was looking at a multiple imprint or some form of trace fossil. I'm heading back to New York in a couple of hours to look for pyritized trilobites in the Beecher Formation. When I get back I will post some of my finds (if I have any). I tried to make an album of my finds from Western New York but got a message saying I wasn't allowed to make albums. I have another mystery fossil from the same location (Spring Creek) whcih I will post later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Try again on the Gallery; I think you have achieved the level of participation set to gain access to that feature. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenops2000 Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Some of us local collectors call your specimen a "squish out." Mud fills the body chamber of a gastropod and is later flattened by the compaction of the sediments. The gastropod has been referred to as Loxonema but I think it's now called Paleozygopleura. The wavy lines on the figure all the way to the right does look like the base of the Loxonema. I think Jerry is spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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